The Bass Coast Landcare Network have joined up with the Victorian Gorse Taskforce and the Atlas of Living Australia to bring you this informative presentation by Peter Brenton of the CSIRO, discussing how you can become involved with the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA).

The ALA is a collaborative, national project that brings together biodiversity data from multiple sources and makes it freely available and usable online. It can be used to record presence of native plants and animals, as well as weeds and pest animals, and is an important tool in conserving natural habitats.

The workshop will be an interactive session about how to use the ALA in the field. This session will be of interest for those individuals, groups and contractors who need to map the occurrence of native or exotic plants or animals and/or have a database for their environmental monitoring data, and for the public who want to contribute through citizen science.

If you have any questions please contact Robbie Gray, on phone: 5678 2335 or email: robbie.gray@basscoastlandcare.org.au

Presenter Profile
Peter Brenton is based with the CSIRO in Canberra and has worked with the Atlas of Living Australia since 2009. For the past 6 years he has lead the ALA’s work to develop and implement tools which support the many and varied needs of field-based data collection by the ecological and citizen science communities. He is particularly interested in making the efforts of citizen scientists and the data which they collect more visible, relevant and accessible in areas where they can have great impact.

Event Details

Date: Monday February 11th

Time: 9:30-12:30pm

Cost: Free

Venue: Bass Hall next to BCLN office (2-4 Bass School Rd, Bass)

Catering: Morning tea will be provided, please notify us of any dietary requirements

RSVP: By Monday February 4th via Eventbrite